To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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